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The Last Of The Squires?

Hugh Mon tgomery-Massingberd E ven so uncompromising a pessimist as Evelyn Waugh had to admit in 1959 that his evocation of the past glories of aristocratic life in Brideshead......

The Press

Epistolary wisdom Paul Johnson O n a quality newspaper, the most impor- tant feature is, or ought to be, the Let- ters to the Editor. I suspect that very few editors really......